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Excerpt:
Country Life Diary:
From Country Life Diary, ()
About this series Country Life Diary, a daily journal about life on a family-owned Thoroughbred farm in Bel Air, Md., debuted with the first of 36 monthly installments in the Feb. 18, 1989, issue of The Blood-Horse. Written by Joseph P. "Josh" Pons Jr., the series was honored with an Eclipse Award for outstanding magazine writing, the second such award for its author, who previously won an Eclipse Award in 1981 while working as a staff writer for The Blood-Horse. Between Eclipse Awards, Pons earned a degree from the University of Kentucky law school before returning home to help manage the family's farm, which is Maryland's oldest Thoroughbred nursery. At the conclusion of the series, Country Life Diary: Three Years in the Life of a Horse Farm was published in book form by The Blood-Horse in 1992, with an epilogue added to a second printing in 1999. While some of the equine and human characters have changed in the 10 years since Pons began his journal, there is a timeless element to life on a horse farm, and the highs and lows expressed during the three years of Country Life Diary are as relevant and absorbing today as they were then. For those who followed the monthly installments in The Blood-Horse or read the book, we hope you'll find these daily online chapters worth revisiting. For those reading Pons' diary for the first time, welcome to Country Life Farm. Ray
Paulick . Foreword |
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